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On that note, I wonder if anyone has suggestions for paid video content that is good? That is, "non fiction" or educational stuff like this series is supposed to be. I feel like I spend too much time watching YouTube (mostly free) and Netflix (very cheap, quality varies).

This is a vague question but I'm interested in all kinds of suggestions... including meta suggestions to recommendation sites. I sometimes look at various subreddits like /r/netflix but I don't find much there.

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CuriosityStream [0] has non-fiction documentaries on a broad range of subjects that can be educational, and is relatively cheaper than similar services. I have been a subscriber for a few years, and it's easy to default to it over YouTube, when you feel you're watching too much of YouTube and not really getting much in return.

I've also heard good things about The Great Courses Plus [1], but have not tried them out yet.

[0]: https://curiositystream.com/categories

[1]: https://www.wondrium.com/the-great-courses-plus

Coursera and EdX are generally quite good (a general heuristic is to avoid the certificate/microdegree stuff.)

Otherwise, I think the real question is "why just paid?!"

There's an absolute load of amazing free online video content. What topic(s) are you interested in?

And there look for non-US universities or the older courses by US universities (when MOOCs were still a thing idealists did). For US universities providing such online courses are now either part of marketing or an attempt to sell overpriced masters. For the European state-run universities they instead mostly deliver good content but without the rip off. They lack slick design and editing but they usually make up for it with substance. For example look at TU Delft for the absolutely best aeronautics and engineering courses.

Agreeed. Crufy MIT OpenCourseware stuff is way better than almost all paid options.

https://www.wondrium.com/home

MASSOLIT (www.massolit.io) might be up your street. Short video lectures from university academics on a whole range of topics.

Disclaimer: I run it.

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